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Does anyone have any idea what this is? I have never seen anything like it before and no one I've asked has a clue.
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Sizzlechest posted:No, saturated is fine. It was once thought to be associated with heart disease, but there's never been any convincing evidence that it's harmful. The general recommendation nowadays is to substitute saturated fat with unsaturated fat since saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol. However, even this advice is poor since the type of LDL cholesterol saturated fat raises is the safe kind, and it lowers the bad LDL. What causes cholesterol to be high, and what causes your hdl and ldls to be out of synch?
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Jul 12, 2011 22:45
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deadly claris posted:Does anyone have any idea what this is? I have never seen anything like it before and no one I've asked has a clue. It's an oil lamp. The wick goes through the hole in the top of the bulb, oil in the bulb. Are there any markings on it?
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Jul 12, 2011 23:27
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b0nes posted:So who do I believe? One half says it causes it the other half says it doesn't. You should believe whomever provides repeatable and verifiable scientific evidence to back up their hypothesis. b0nes posted:I have a friend who used to eat anything and his cholesterol was terrible now he is vegan and everything is back to normal. I have a friend who is a gypsy. He became very ill and his doctor prescribed him an antibiotic to fight the infection. His parents moved the furniture around in his apartment, which is their tradition when people get sick. He got better. Do you think this is evidence that moving furniture around when you're sick makes you healther? Your friend made a lot of changes in his diet that resulted in better cholesterol numbers. Was it the lack of saturated fat and dietary cholesterol? Was it the extra fiber? Was it the reduction in high glycemic carbohydrates? Was it an increase in protein? Was it due to fish oil supplements? All of the above? None of the above? Some? A combination? To answer the question, it takes a lot of painstaking research to identify a cause in absence of confounding issues. Unfortunately, this rarely occurs. b0nes posted:What causes cholesterol to be high, and what causes your hdl and ldls to be out of synch? There are lots of factors that affect serum cholesterol. Triglicerides are mostly affected by dietary carbohydrates (negatively). Fats improve HDLs and LDLs. Yes, saturated fat increases total LDLs, but it increases the benign LDL and decreaes the harmful LDLs.
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Jul 13, 2011 01:37
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I have a question regarding the RMA/Return of a laptop to circuitcity.com. I recently purchased an expensive 13.3 inch Sony Vaio from Circuit City through Amazon.com. When I received the computer, I promptly installed an OEM copy of Windows 7 to circumvent what I knew would probably amount to hours of uninstalling unwanted bloatware included with the pc. After installing Windows 7, I attempted to install an Ubuntu Linux partition. Ubuntu didn't run all that well, and it turns out that Sony Hardware isn't on the official list of supported hardware by Ubuntu. After learning this, I decided I no longer wanted the laptop. Since circuitcity.com offers an 'iron clad, no excuse necessary, 30-day return policy' on this item, I simply called them up and in a matter of minutes painlessly received an RMA # with which to make the return. The woman told me that I just had to send everything back in its original packaging and, after inspection and subsequent approval, the charge to my debit card would be reversed. Here is my question: What kind of inspection will it undergo? Physically, the item is in perfect condition and I saved every scrap of packaging it came with. In addition - before sending everything back, I booted the computer off of the reserved 'recovery' partition on the drive and reset everything back to 'factory conditions'. As far as I can tell, it erased everything on the drive and reset it to exactly as it was when I received it. Can/will they check the computer in such a way that they will find out that I installed a retail copy of windows/ubuntu partition before resetting everything back to factory conditions? Will they even reject the RMA return because of this? Should I even be worried? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Kosani fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Jul 13, 2011 |
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Jul 13, 2011 02:16
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I'm probably gonna catch hell for this, because I know fuckall about tech. Can I gently caress up my iPhone by looking at random porn video sites?
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Jul 13, 2011 03:34
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Jul 13, 2011 03:39
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Robokomodo posted:I'm probably gonna catch hell for this, because I know fuckall about tech. Can I gently caress up my iPhone by looking at random porn video sites? It's probably a tiny bit safer to watch porn on your iPhone than on your laptop, due to the degree which Apple has the hardware locked down. The exception to this rule is if you've jailbroken your iPhone; that is usually accomplished by intentionally disabling most/all of the default security settings.
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Jul 13, 2011 03:59
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Kosani posted:Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I don't work for Circuit City but they'll probably give it a visual inspection, make sure the components are what was originally shipped, boot it up to see if it works and call it good. I wouldn't worry too much about it. It's way too much work otherwise, so I think you're being paranoid.
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Jul 13, 2011 04:10
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Kosani posted:I have a question regarding the RMA/Return of a laptop to circuitcity.com. Nobody cares what you did to the OS, as long as it's restored to factory condition and has all the part you're fine.
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Jul 13, 2011 04:38
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Do you retain calories when you have diarrhoea? I had a massive meal for lunch about 4 hours ago and it went through me within half an hour. And now I'm hungry again. Any fecal experts in the house?
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Jul 13, 2011 09:17
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We're all fecal experts here.
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Jul 13, 2011 10:37
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Jul 13, 2011 10:51
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PaoFerro posted:Do you retain calories when you have diarrhoea? I had a massive meal for lunch about 4 hours ago and it went through me within half an hour. And now I'm hungry again. Pro-tip: when you have a major diarrhoea which makes meals go through you in half an hour you shouldn't be eating anything caloric anyway. Stick to light, dry food, rice and groats, drink a lot of water - a little hunger until your digestive system comes back to normal won't kill you.
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Jul 13, 2011 10:57
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Yes, and wash your hands! But regardless, if you share a bathroom with anyone, they'll get it too.
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Jul 13, 2011 11:12
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I am looking for a name or maybe even a link to an animation short. I saw it years ago and it featured a rabbit sitting in an armchair when a telephone starts ringing. For the longest time the rabbit is looking for the source of the ringing and finally finds the phone. He answers it and it appears to be just a telemarketer who wants to sell something. The thing is that the rabbit reacts with genuine emotions to every cliche telemarket sentence, threat or question. For example when he hears "You wouldn't like this to happen to you, would you?" - he's genuinely terrified by the possibility. The conversation lasts for a while until the rabbit hangs up. THE END. It's a hilarious little cartoon, very fluidly animated and set in a minimalistic interior - just the armchair, the telephone and the rabbit (I think). Maybe I'm remembering wrong but I think it was in warm colors... I'm pretty sure it was American/British. Every few months I remember it and start looking for it but no obvious google search terms bring up anything close. Help!
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Jul 13, 2011 11:49
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I saw a music video around 2001 or 2002 featuring a team of baton twirlers getting on a bus and travelling to some sort of competition, I think. The music was sort of club electro, with a black vocalist or sampled snippets. IIRC it featured repeated lines of "get down", had a very tight rhythm, and a deep analogue kind of synth bass. I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me the name of the tune or the act. For musical purposes, not for staring at uniformed twirlerettes. I suppose they all say that tho.
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Jul 13, 2011 12:30
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Ad Astra posted:
Google Image Search shows that picture on WikiFeet under Hepburn, so...probably. Also brought it up on someone's Livejournal as her. brylcreem posted:Yes, and wash your hands! But regardless, if you share a bathroom with anyone, they'll get it too. This is not true.
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Jul 13, 2011 14:10
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Spotted a huge wasp (2 inches long or so) that I'm just about positive was one of these, going off the marking pattern and eye color, but I can't seem to match that marking pattern with any actual species and that image was only tagged as "wasp". This is in North Carolina. Anyone know what it might be? 
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Jul 13, 2011 16:31
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Dunno if this is the right place for this but is there somewhere on SA I can post about an apartment I need to sublease? If not does anyone have any suggestions besides craigslist?
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Jul 13, 2011 16:42
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Wasn't sure if this belonged in SH/SC but I didn't see any really relevant threads there, or through a search. My boss wants me to start learning MS Excel - are there any good free resources for this online that any of you have actually learned from? I just don't want to start one of these multi-week "free tutorials" with no end or goal in sight. Even if it starts with the basics, but isn't patronizing is fine; my end goal is trying to take varied, obtuse PDF requests of data and somehow cobble them into standardized forms. It might be impossible but its worth a shot. I only dabbled with Excel very briefly for some stat and econ classes in college years ago, and only extremely simple stuff at my last job.
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Jul 13, 2011 16:48
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Maytag posted:WikiFeet This is a thing?  Every time I think the internet just can't get any creepier, it does.
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Jul 13, 2011 17:26
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MLIOOBE posted:Wasn't sure if this belonged in SH/SC but I didn't see any really relevant threads there, or through a search. Can you teach yourself? Excel can do a ton of stuff, so much stuff that any sort of class is going to cover a lot that you're not interested in. Google and Excel's help section can probably get you started with what you're trying to do, I'd start there and see what you can do. I'd consider myself advanced in Excel and I've probably realistically only touched 10% of what it can do.
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Jul 13, 2011 19:10
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Gravity Pike posted:It's probably a tiny bit safer to watch porn on your iPhone than on your laptop, due to the degree which Apple has the hardware locked down. The exception to this rule is if you've jailbroken your iPhone; that is usually accomplished by intentionally disabling most/all of the default security settings. As a Mac user, I never think about internet safety, but aren't porn sites generally bad for Windows computers?
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Jul 13, 2011 19:21
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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I'm sort of confused. One day I was able to login to Google+ without receiving and invite from anyone. Was a random group of users just given access to it or what? I can't seem to find anything about why I just randomly had access.
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Jul 13, 2011 20:05
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kapalama posted:As a Mac user, I never think about internet safety, but aren't porn sites generally bad for Windows computers? Yes because if you look at them too much your monitor will eventually stop working
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Jul 13, 2011 20:10
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When I press the power button on my cell phone, and the "Phone options (Silent mode, airplane, off)" menu appears, the "desktop" behind it gets very dark and fuzzy. Is that dark fuzziness a rendered effect, or is it actually dark and fuzzy because less power is going to those areas of the screen or something?
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Jul 13, 2011 20:27
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Very Strange Things posted:When I press the power button on my cell phone, and the "Phone options (Silent mode, airplane, off)" menu appears, the "desktop" behind it gets very dark and fuzzy. It's a rendered effect. There are LCD displays that can really do what you think might be happening (this is called local dimming) but they are used in high-end TVs rather than cell phones.
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Jul 13, 2011 20:35
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Note: on a mac In Adobe Illustrator, if I am working with text, I can hit the escape key to go from editing the text to using the arrow tool to move the text around. Hitting the usual keyboard shortcut for the arrow tool, v, would insert a letter v in to the text. Is there a similar shortcut in Photoshop? Hitting v inserts the letter v and hitting escape undoes any typing/formatting I just did. Thank you
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Jeffrey Colon posted:I'm sort of confused. One day I was able to login to Google+ without receiving and invite from anyone. Was a random group of users just given access to it or what? I can't seem to find anything about why I just randomly had access. Did you sign up on their 'waiting list' page at some point? Maybe you were approved or whatever and didn't notice an email about it. The way I understand the process you must have been invited somehow.
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Knightmare posted:Can you teach yourself? Excel can do a ton of stuff, so much stuff that any sort of class is going to cover a lot that you're not interested in. Google and Excel's help section can probably get you started with what you're trying to do, I'd start there and see what you can do. I'd consider myself advanced in Excel and I've probably realistically only touched 10% of what it can do. Yeah, I definitely can - just looking for resources that are sort of "here's where to start, you can go here, here, here..." etc. I'll start with the Microsoft and Excel helps/references. Excel is really intriguing to me but I'm just not good with it. Reminds me a lot of doing proofs in geometry class in high school (which I was loving terrible at) - give you a beginning and end and try to get there in the easiest and most sensible way possible. I can see exactly what I want in my head for Excel to do, but getting it to do that is very confusing and frustrating!
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What was up with the "songs about cameras" trend around 1980 among new wave bands and progressive rock bands trying to be new wave? I mean I know there was a general tendency toward futurism and critique of commercialism and the impact of images, but is there anything more to it then that, or some more specific impetus I've overlooked? Why so many songs by so many bands specifically about cameras and photography, in the span of a couple years? Yes - Into the Lens (I Am a Camera) Gentle Giant - I Am a Camera Rush - The Camera Eye Mi-Sex - Camera Kazi Renaissance - Camera Camera Duran Duran - Girls on Film Gary Numan - Films, Photograph Depeche Mode - Photographic And so on.
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Backtalk posted:Note: on a mac
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Jul 13, 2011 22:14
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carlcarlson posted:I'm on a PC, but if I hit the Enter key that's on the 10-key it keeps the changes in the text and exits out of text editing mode. Unfortunately I'm on a notebook. No 10-key. Your suggestion gave me the idea to try variations on enter (shift+enter, option+enter, etc.) but still no luck.
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Jul 13, 2011 23:09
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Rollersnake posted:What was up with the "songs about cameras" trend around 1980 among new wave bands and progressive rock bands trying to be new wave? I mean I know there was a general tendency toward futurism and critique of commercialism and the impact of images, but is there anything more to it then that, or some more specific impetus I've overlooked? Why so many songs by so many bands specifically about cameras and photography, in the span of a couple years? Well, I don't really know for sure but video was still pretty new and MTV showing up made it so music and visuals were being meshed as never before. I don't remember there being any huge Camera fetish going on, but MTV definitly changed the way music was/is presented. "Video killed the Radio Star" was the first video played on MTV, sorta prophetic. Nobody has made a "Internet Killed the TV" song yet, have they? Someone needs to get on that.
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Jul 14, 2011 00:59
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I have black and white pdfs of 4, 250-500 page books that were printed in the mid to late nineteenth century(no copyright issues). What is the cheapest way to get these printed so I can annotate them and make translation notes? I am not a university student, and I don't want to print them at work. I checked kinkos/fedex and its about $50 for the smallest one in black and white, double sided on their cheapest 8.5x11 paper with no binding.
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Barometer posted:Well, I don't really know for sure but video was still pretty new and MTV showing up made it so music and visuals were being meshed as never before. I don't remember there being any huge Camera fetish going on, but MTV definitly changed the way music was/is presented. This was still about a year before MTV debuted. I know music videos were an emerging artform, but I dunno if that explains it either.
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Barometer posted:Well, I don't really know for sure but video was still pretty new and MTV showing up made it so music and visuals were being meshed as never before. I don't remember there being any huge Camera fetish going on, but MTV definitly changed the way music was/is presented. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5tSmOY_iM It's not particularly good, but it's a minor hit at the moment I guess?
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Rollersnake posted:This was still about a year before MTV debuted. I know music videos were an emerging artform, but I dunno if that explains it either. Really the whole thing seems to have started in the late 70's and then moved into the 80's. I'm just speaking as a person who lived through the 80s, and I don't remember any specific thing that lead to the whole video/camera fetish thing (or the drat pastels). All I know is you are right, cameras and lenses did play a pretty big part in the media (across the board, really). Maybe because we were all acutely aware that we were coming up on 1984. 
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Is there a new car buying megathread anywhere? I looked around in AI and BFC but nothing really jumped out at me.
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